Browsing by Author "Nikolic, Jelena"
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Bottom-up model for the sustainability assessment of rooftop-farming technologies potential in schools in Quito, Ecuador
Ledesma Hidalgo, Maria Gabriela; Nikolic, Jelena; Pons Valladares, Oriol (2020-07-18)
Article
Open AccessRooftop-farming technologies can transform unexploited roofs into agricultural areas; and though studies have quantified the sustainability of diverse rooftop-farm systems, researchers lack a direct comparison between these ... -
Building “with the systems” vs. building “in the system” of IMS open technology of prefabricated construction: challenges for new “infill” industry for massive housing retrofitting
Nikolic, Jelena (2018-01-01)
Article
Open AccessPost-war industrialized housing between 1955 and 1985 in Belgrade and its special form of integrated prefabrication has been analyzed with a strong interest in transformation capacity of industrialized building model (IBM) ... -
Co-simulation for thermodynamic coupling of crops in buildings: case study of free-running schools in Quito, Ecuador
Ledesma Hidalgo, Maria Gabriela; Nikolic, Jelena; Pons Valladares, Oriol (2022-01)
Article
Restricted access - publisher's policyRooftop farms can improve a building's thermal and energy performance, especially for uninsulated free-running buildings. The non-refurbished educational building stock lacks indoor comfort related to temperature and high ... -
Configuration design of collective housing building structure - IFD systems configuration
Nikolic, Jelena (CRC Press, Taylor & Francis / Balkema, 2013)
Conference report
Open AccessResidential buildings are still based on conventional construction process where components and subsystems are parts of closed-static systems, based on fixed connections and mixed functions. Uncontrolled overlapping of ... -
Consensus evaluation report
Nikolic, Jelena (2017-12-11)
Research report
Restricted access - author's decisionExternal Expert Remote Evaluation and individual evaluation report -
Industrialized housing transformation capacity: case study of post-war massive housing in Beograd
Nikolic, Jelena (2016)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe sustainability aspect of industrialized massive blocks of flats in Bcograd is analyzed through the possibility of the industrialized building model - BM to be upgraded (not demolished), on different levels of its ... -
Integrated rooftop greenhouses and green skyline cities
Nikolic, Jelena (2018)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe paper proposes a new strategy against the global warming, which if applied on large scale is able to turn our cities into green oasis, decreasing their actual carbon footprint and increasing their carbon offset. Our ... -
Intelligent rooftop greenhouses and green skyline cities
Balas, Marius Mircea; Nikolic, Jelena; Lile, Ramona; Popa, Mihaela; Beiu, Roxana Mariana (2019-10-01)
Article
Open AccessThe paper proposes a new concept of green building, able to oppose the global warming, the Intelligent Rooftop Greenhouse iRTG, as a development of the Integrated Rooftop Greenhouse IRTG. Our approach is to replace ... -
Modelling a new workflow based on emotional analysis of the floor-plans using machine learning algorithms and semiotics
Fatemi, Nima; Nikolic, Jelena; Moreno-Noguer, Francesc (Centre de Politica de Sol i Valoracions, CPSV / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, UPC, 2019-12)
Conference report
Open AccessEl propósito inicial de la tecnología es ayudarnos en tareas repetitivas. Por ejemplo, en los últimos años, los programas CAD están ayudando a los diseñadores a dedicar más tiempo al diseño mismo; estar limitado por la ... -
New challenging approach for analysis and upgrading of massive building structure: Case study of New Belgrade post-war mega blocks
Nikolic, Jelena (2013)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe New Belgrade represents the city of post-war social housing where some 250.000 inhabitants live on more than 4.000 hectares. It was planned as a modern city to be the administrative center of New Yugoslavia, but the ... -
Open configuration model for collective housing building structure : graph model
Nikolic, Jelena (2014)
Article
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe collective housing buildings are usually inflexible in the exploitation phase because of inflexible building structure. Inflexible structural model is composed of components and subsystems, more or less joined together ... -
Open configuration model for collective housing building structure: graph model
Nikolic, Jelena (PoliScript, 2013)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe collective housing buildings are usually inflexible in the exploitation phase because of inflexible building structure. Inflexible structural model is composed of components and subsystems, more or less joined together ... -
Real-reference buildings for urban energy modelling: a multistage validation and diversification approach
Ledesma Hidalgo, Maria Gabriela; Pons Valladares, Oriol; Nikolic, Jelena (2021-10)
Article
Restricted access - publisher's policyUrban energy models are required to establish baselines, map buildings' performance, and explore energy and CO2 emissions reduction strategies. The authors propose a new reductive bottom-up model to estimate the final ... -
Refurbishment scenarios for post-war industrialized housing in Beograd
Nikolic, Jelena (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-02-05)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe post-war industrialized housing between 1955 and 1985 in Belgrade has been analyzed with its special focus on the transformation capacity on spatial, technical and environmental leveL for future refurbishment. The focal ... -
Sustainability assessment model for mass housing's interior rehabilitation and its validation to Ekbatan, Iran
Zolfaghari, Seyyed Mohammadreza; Pons Valladares, Oriol; Nikolic, Jelena (Elsevier, 2023-04)
Article
Open AccessMass housing (MH) buildings from the ‘60s to the ‘80s, after decades of continuous use and inadequate maintenance, cause several sustainability issues and need rehabilitation. Most current conventional rehabilitation ... -
Sustainable design, construction, refurbishment and restoration of architecture: a review
Pons Valladares, Oriol; Nikolic, Jelena (2020-11-22)
Article
Open AccessConsidering the serious challenges our planet is facing, the building environment and construction sector must minimize their high negative impacts and maximize their contribution to sustainability. Many alternatives could ... -
Towards a more energy efficient educational architecture in cities: typologies of Barcelona and Quito public schools for energy modelling
Ledesma Hidalgo, Maria Gabriela; Nikolic, Jelena; Pons Valladares, Oriol (Centre de Politica de Sol i Valoracions, CPSV / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, UPC, 2019-12)
Conference report
Open AccessLa edificación es uno de los sectores con mayor consumo energético mundial, representando aproximadamente un tercio del consumo global de energía. El análisis del inventario edilicio de una ciudad requiere la aplicación ... -
Towards green design and engineering of transformable building structure for adaptable housing: case study of Kyoto House
Nikolic, Jelena (2012)
Conference lecture
Restricted access - publisher's policyAdaptability of buildings has become an important issue in building life relying on the flexibility in the future use of space to extend the functional lifespan of systems. The main findings for this work are based on a ...